1. Who can tell me the historical background of the main station building of Tianjin West Railway Station? It is urgently needed. Thank you. In September 1898, the British and German capital groups held a meeting in London and decided without authorization to undertake the Tianjin-Zhenjiang Railway (Tianjin to Zhenjiang).

The Qing government succumbed to the pressure and signed a draft loan agreement in May 1899, signed a loan contract in 1908, and renamed the Jinzhen Railway to Jinpu Railway.

The Jinpu Railway has a total length of 1,009 kilometers, and together with the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, it has become a transportation artery connecting the north and the south.

Its northern section starts from the junction of the two tracks south of the Tianjin terminus (today's North Station) of the Beijing-Fengcheng Railway (Beijing to Shenyang) to Hanzhuang, Shandong, and is 626 kilometers long; its southern section is 383 kilometers long from Hanzhuang to Pukou.

The two sections started construction in July 1908 and January 1909 respectively, and were connected in September 1911.

The entire line was opened to traffic in 1913.

At that time, the construction of the northern section of the Tianjin-Puzhou Railway started from the halfway point of the designed line, that is, from the current Jinghai Liangwangzhuang towards Tianjin city. The reason for this is because the specific address of the starting point of this railway in Tianjin has never been determined.

As a result, a railway line with no specific starting point was constructed in a hurry.

Later, Lu Haihuan, the Minister of Railway Supervision, sent an investigator. After on-the-spot investigation, he submitted a very valuable piece of information, saying: "There is more than two hectares of open space behind Zhaojiachang in Hebei Province (Tianjin). The terrain is flat, and there are no houses.

There is no grave, so it can be used for the construction of the terminal." So, Lu Haihuan decided that the starting station of the Jinpu Railway would be built in Zhaojiachang, Hebei.

The so-called "Hebei Zhaojiachang" actually refers to the area from Beiyingmen to the South Canal in today's Hongqiao District. Because the South Canal had not been straightened at that time, and Zhaojiachang was located on the north bank of the South Canal, it was formerly called "Hebei Zhaojiachang".

, about 500 meters away from the current Tianjin West Railway Station.

As a result, the track laying construction direction of the northern section of Jinpu Railway tilted toward Zhaojiachang.

Later, the symbol of Zhaojiachang Station - a majestic German-style small foreign-style building stood tall in the surrounding environment of setting sun, grass, trees and ordinary alleys, like a flock of chickens, becoming a beautiful landscape.

Even today, nearly a hundred years later, it is still shining and elegant.

On December 14, 1910, Tianjin West Railway Station was completed and opened.

It forms a three-way structure with three major stations in the east, north and west of Tianjin.

Tianjin East Railway Station (built in 1892) is located in the Russian Concession, adjacent to the Italian Concession, and across the Haihe River from the French Concession.

Tianjin North Railway Station (built in 1904) is located in the "Beiyang New District" carefully built by Yuan Shikai, showing the prosperity of the Westernization Movement.

Surrounding the West Railway Station is the original living atmosphere of the grassroots.

After 1906, the Tianjin trams invested and built by a Belgian consortium, the red and blue trams ran directly from Beidaguan through the East Floating Bridge (today's Jintang Bridge) and Wanguo Bridge (today's Jiefang Bridge) to the East Station.

The newly added purple tram runs from Jingang Bridge to North Station.

Only the West Station does not have trams. Passengers catching trains can take the tram and get off at Northwest Point Station, and then take a tricycle or walk there.

To the east of the West Station is the Santiaoshi area on Hebei Street, where factories and workshops are gathered, making it the birthplace of Tianjin industry; to the north of the West Station is the Hanqiao and Dahongqiao areas, which are the inland river terminals from Tianjin to Jizhong; and to the south of the West Station is the Dahuo Alley area in the northwest corner

, is the core settlement of lower-class citizens north of Tianjin’s old city.

This ecological situation in the area surrounding the West Railway Station has remained unchanged for almost a hundred years and continues to this day.

Hebei Street, Guayi Street, Zhenshi Street and other places near the West Railway Station were once the commercial centers of Tianjin a hundred years ago.

After the Gengzi Rebellion (Boxer Rebellion Incident, Eight-Power Allied Forces Invasion) in 1900, Tianjin's commercial center gradually moved southward to Xu Street in the Japanese Concession (the area around the intersection of Heping Road and Duolun Road near today's department store) and the French Concession.

Lizhan (the area at the intersection of Heping Road and Binjiang Road near today's Quanyechang).

After the Gengzi Rebellion, the formerly prosperous commercial district located in the Hebei Street, Guayi Street, and Zhenshi Street areas of today's Hongqiao District became a stagnant place.

This kind of decline not only makes the Governor-General of Zhili in Tianjin scratch his head, but even the old local residents have no hope of restoring their former prosperity.

However, the construction of Jinpu Road objectively brings a glimmer of hope for the revitalization of this hot land: if the open space behind Zhaojiachang is developed and utilized and a new large-scale railway station is built, the old prosperity will be gradually restored.

Facts have proved that after the completion of the West Railway Station, the surrounding areas that had declined and been gradually restored to life.

As one of the powerful foreign cultures, railways not only prosper transportation, but also modernize people's social relations and ideas, and objectively promote the prosperity of regional economy.

During the renovation and reconstruction of West Station, a newly built "underground diameter line" will connect West Station and Tianjin Station, essentially forming a giant station that joins forces.

Tianjin’s original ecology of different urban areas with different temperaments will be changed.

At the same time, this connection will enable the area around the West Station to be comprehensively upgraded in terms of economy, culture and urban appearance, and will surely be rejuvenated.

On February 4, the Tianjin West Station of the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed ??Railway officially started construction. After a century of vicissitudes, the West Station has ushered in a new change.